hotelling_test_2.m

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## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997  Kurt Hornik
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## usage:  [pval, Tsq] = hotelling_test_2 (x, y)
##
## For two samples x from multivariate normal distributions with the
## same number of variables (columns), unknown means and unknown equal
## covariance matrices, test the null hypothesis mean (x) == mean (y).
##
## Tsq is Hotelling's two-sample T^2.  Under the null, 
##    (n_x+n_y-p-1) T^2 / (p(n_x+n_y-2))
## has an F distribution with p and n_x+n_y-p-1 degrees of freedom,
## where n_x and n_y are the sample sizes and p is the number of
## variables.
##
## pval is the p-value of the test.
##
## If no output argument is given, the p-value of the test is displayed.

## Author:  KH <[e-mail]>
## Description:  Compare means of two multivariate normals
  
function [pval, Tsq] = hotelling_test_2 (x, y)
  
  if (nargin != 2)
    usage ("hotelling_test_2 (x, y)");
  endif
  
  if (is_vector (x))
    n_x = length (x);
    if (! is_vector (y))
      error ("hotelling_test_2:  If x is a vector, y must be too.");
    else
      n_y = length (y);
      p   = 1;
    endif
  elseif (is_matrix (x))
    [n_x, p] = size (x);
    [n_y, q] = size (y);
    if (p != q)
      error (strcat ("hotelling_test_2:  ",
		     "x and y must have the same number of columns"));
    endif
  else
    error ("hotelling_test_2:  x and y must be matrices (or vectors)");
  endif
  
  d    = mean (x) - mean (y);
  S    = ((n_x - 1) * cov (x) + (n_y - 1) * cov (y)) / (n_x + n_y - 2);
  Tsq  = (n_x * n_y / (n_x + n_y)) * d * (S \ d');
  pval = 1 - f_cdf ((n_x + n_y - p - 1) * Tsq / (p * (n_x + n_y - 2)),
		    p, n_x + n_y - p - 1);
	      
  if (nargout == 0)
    printf ("  pval:  %g\n", pval);
  endif
  
endfunction